Did you know that "Hellebore" means "poisonous food"?

No, nor did I, until I did some research for the eBook I've just published - or rather, re-published.

This one originally came out in 2015:

... I wrote it for a Client, who could never remember which type of Hellebore was which, in her garden.

I didn't expect it to be a top-seller, because most of my Field Guides are for Botanists, so they cover plants which are found out in the wild (or "Weeds" as I call them), whereas this one is mostly garden plants.

But I've been surprised that it sells quite well.

Then I got some bad feedback - not for this eBook, for the one I wrote on Snowdrops - which complained about the shortage of photos, and how "short" the book was. Well, a Field Guide is exactly that, a Guide, it's not supposed to be a novel... but at around the same time, I had some good feedback from other of my eBooks, commenting that they liked my "chatty" style.

So I decided I would revamp the Field Guides, with the addition of more description, more photos, and a bit of general information, which apparently people like, in addition to the strictly relevant botany stuff.

It's taking me months to go through them all - am I the only one who finds it a lot easier to write something from scratch, then to go back and revise a past work? - and I finally reached the Hs, so here is the revised, expanded, and enhanced Hellebore eBook:

...and yes, I re-did the covers, too!

Check it out, to find out the truth about "poisoned food", the reason why Hellebores hang their heads (well, my reasoning, at any rate) and several other mildly interesting facts - as well as how to tell the difference between the various Hellebores you are likely to find in your garden, and occasionally out in the wild.

Let me know what you think of it!

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